Fred Brooks
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022) was an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist.
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| Born | Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. April 19, 1931 Durham, North Carolina |
| Died | November 17, 2022 (aged 91) Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| Alma mater | Duke University (undergraduate) Harvard University (postgraduate) |
| Known for | OS/360 The Mythical Man-Month |
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| Fields | Computer Science Operating systems Software engineering |
| Institutions | IBM[1] University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Duke University Harvard University |
| Thesis | The Analytic Design of Automatic Data Processing Systems (1956) |
| Doctoral students | List
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| Website | www |
He is best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers alongside Gerrit Blaauw and Gene Amdahl and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks has received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.[4]
Brooks was born in Durham, North Carolina. He studied Duke University, graduating in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, and he received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University in 1956, supervised by Howard Aiken.
References
- ↑ Brooks, F. P.. The execute operations---a fourth mode of instruction sequencing. Communications of the ACM 3 (3) (1960). p. 168–170. doi:10.1145/367149.367168.
- ↑ Doctoral Dissertations — Department of Computer Science. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
- ↑ Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. - PhD StudentsComputer Science Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
- ↑ Shustek, Len. An interview with Fred Brooks. Communications of the ACM 58 (11) (2015). p. 36–40. doi:10.1145/2822519.
Other websites
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